Jakob Kaufmann, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Oswald arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg. Later documents confirm Oswald's surname as Niederhausen, so perhaps he is actually a step-son of Jakob Kaufmann.
The parents died after arrival in Russia. Son Oswald Kaufmann [actually Niederhausen] settled in the Volga German colony of Huck on 1 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1 along with the family of Johannes Huck.
The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Kaufmann/Niederhausen and Huck families.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Jakob Kaufmann came from the German region of Isenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kaufmann family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 402.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 139.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3107.
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